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A thriller. On May 27, 1942 the German Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. The film is the story of Heydrich's assassination and of the search for his assassinators, two Czech underground members. The film was made in the United states of America during the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic. The film was co-scripted by two German exiles, director Fritz Lang and playwrighter Bertolt Brecht.

Director : Fritz Lang

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 129

Language : English

Europe the Mighty Continent: Rise of the Dictators - Form! Riflemen!

Volume 8 in "Europe: The Mighty Continent", a 13 parts documentary TV series that examines the history of the continent. Actor Peter Ustinov and historian John Terrine bring to life the trends, technology and tides of fortune that have so drastically reshaped Europe since 1900. Rise of the Dictators: Demoralized by years of depression, Europeans were ready for new leaders and new solutions. The strident voices of German National Socialism are heard. Film clips show Hitler amidst the Nordic pageantry of the 1934 Nazi party rally. In Italy, Mussolini addressed a huge throng of "Health and Joy"...

Director : John Terraine

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 52

Language : English

A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers - WWII, The Propaganda Battle

Educational television program that examines the subject of propaganda in cinema. Excerpts from propaganda films, newsreels and original films.

Director : David Grubin

Production Year : 1982

Duration : 50

Language : English

People's Century - Master Race (1933), Total War (1939), Brave new World (1945)

Archival series of 26 programmes looking at the past 100 years. Three chapetrs are relevant: 1933- In this series looking at momemtous events in the twentieth century through the eyes of ordinary people, this programme looks at the rise of Hitler and its consequences. 1939- Civilians recount their experiences of the Second World War. 1945- Brave New World: Charts the meeting of American and Soviet armies on the banks of the Elbe in 1945. American and Russian soldiers talk about that experience. The programme covers the period from victory in the Second World War through the rise of the Cold War to the building...

Director : Jonathan Lewis, John Bridcut

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 107

Language : English

The Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl

An extensive two-part look at Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), German filmmaker known mainly for her infamous propaganda efforts for the Nazi Party and the 3rd Reich and for her contributions to the aesthetics of film and photography which usually regarded as vast.

Director : Ray Mueller

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 183

Language : English, German

Ohm Kruger

Anti-British Nazi drama

Director : Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 125

Language : German

Hitler Jugend Quex

Nazi propaganda drama about a youth whose father presses him to join the communist youth movement when his heart is inclined toward Nazism.*

Director : Hans Steinhoff

Production Year : 1933

Duration : 88

Language : English, German

Kolberg

Nazi lavish historical drama that was one of the central propaganda efforts of the 3rd Reich film industry. Made in 1943-1944, "Kolberg" intended to counter the Germans' war-weariness and encourage optimistic spirit. The story is loosely based on the events that took place in Kolberg, the small town on the Prussian Baltic coast whose inhabitants raised a people's militia against Napoleon's invading forces in 1806-07 at a time when the army was ready to surrender. The film's two heroes are Nettelbeck, Kolberg's Mayor, and Gneisenau, the leader of the Prussian soldiers. Despite the corruption of the local...

Director : Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 108

Language : German

Cabaret Polska

This film combines the documentary genre with the cabaret. Only 25 years after Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust on Polish soil, 30,000 Jews, including intelligentsia, scientists, artists and exceptional writers, were expelled from Poland. In the anti-Semitic campaign sponsored by the state in March 1968 in Communist Poland, the last Holocaust survivors - in the pre-war country of more than three million Jewish citizens - were declared "Foreigners," "Zionists," "Cosmopolites," and "Enemies of the Polish People's Republic", and forced to leave the country. Many of the emmigrants found shelter in Scandinavia,...

Director : ניר דויד זץ, Zuzanna Solakiewicz

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 49

Language : Polish, Yiddish

The Lost Children of Berlin

סרט תעודי המנציח מפגש מחודש של לשעבר תלמידי בית הספר Grosse Hamburger Strasse, בית ספר יהודי בלב ברלין (Berlin) אשר נסגר ב-1942 ע"י הנאצים וכיום פועל שוב. כמה מתלמידי בית הספר מספרים על זכרונותיהם כילדים ובני נוער יהודים בברלין של גרמניה הנאצית. כולל גם סרטי ארכיון.*

Director : Elizabeth Mclntyre

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 53

Language : English

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